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Donald Trump has fired all foreign US ambassadors with nobody to replace them. He demanded they leave their offices by midday on Inauguration Day.

"The message was something that is normally sent out (after every election every four years) by the State Department at the request of the White House," the State Department official said.

"It's a normal procedure for ambassadors, career and non-career, to submit their resignations. And what happens is that all of them do," according to the official who added the message was sent out Tuesday.

You’d have to talk to the Trump transition team about why they decided to not be willing to broker exceptions or waivers, requests to extend. I can’t speak to that. That’s really for them. But — hang on. But you’re right that in the past there have been a handful, a small number, of extension requests granted, but that is totally in the prerogative of the incoming team. And for — it’s for them to determine whether they’d be willing to accept or deny individual requests to extend. It’s really for them to speak to.